Peter Kropotkin
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Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer (1842 to 1921), a proponent of anarchist communism; lived in exile in England from 1886 to 1917; author…
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That a pitiless war within each species is a condition of progress is unproved and unconfirmed by direct observation (opens korrents.com)
“This view, however, I could not accept, because I was persuaded that to admit a pitiless inner war for life within each species, and to see in that war a condition of progress, was to admit something which not only had…”
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What moves a person to help a neighbour whose house is on fire is a wide instinct of human solidarity, not love (opens korrents.com)
“It is not love to my neighbour—whom I often do not know at all—which induces me to seize a pail of water and to rush towards his house when I see it on fire; it is a far wider, even though more vague feeling or…”
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Human society rests not on love or sympathy but on an awareness, even if only instinctive, of human solidarity (opens korrents.com)
“But it is not love and not even sympathy upon which Society is based in mankind. It is the conscience—be it only at the stage of an instinct—of human solidarity.”
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That a pitiless war within each species is a condition of progress is unproved and unconfirmed by direct observation (opens korrents.com)